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Perella Chief Sees More M&A Deals Under Trump’s ‘Lighter Touch’
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The Trump administration’s lighter touch on antitrust will lead to a boom in mergers and acquisitions, according to the leader of deal-making firm Perella Weinberg Partners.
“For the last two years or so, the industry has really been wearing a weight vest in the M&A markets — we’ve had a very muscular antitrust authority, not just in the US, but globally,” Chief Executive Officer Andrew Bednar said in an interview with Bloomberg TV. “That’s going to be lifted here in the coming months with the new administration.”